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Definition: Jacobean |
JacobeanAdjective1. Of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean writers". Noun1. Any distinguished personage during the reign of James I of England. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Jacobean" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
Crosswords: Jacobean |
| English words defined with "Jacobean": audacious ♦ daring ♦ venturesome, venturous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Jacobean": Hades. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word "Aides" as "Hell"; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it. At the next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work, suddenly sprang to his feet and said with considerable excitement: "Gentlemen, somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years afterward the good prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English tongue. |
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| "Jacobean" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.67% of the time. "Jacobean" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.67% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.96% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Jacobean": jacobean lily. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Jacobean": jacobean-style. | |
Ending with "Jacobean": neo-jacobean. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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jacobean | 17 |
furniture jacobean | 13 |
iron jacobean pattern transfer | 6 |
embroidery jacobean | 5 |
royal doulton jacobean | 3 |
jacobean period | 3 |
architecture jacobean | 3 |
chair jacobean | 3 |
applique jacobean | 3 |
jacobean style | 2 |
jacobean tragedy | 2 |
england jacobean | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Jacobean"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | jakubovský. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | aus der zeit jakobs 1. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | personaggio del tempo di giacomo i. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | Jamyssagh (Jacobite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acobeanjay från jakob i's tid. (various references) ingiltere kralı 1.james dönemine ait. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Jacobean" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jacoba, Jacobina, jacoboea, Jacobyini, Jakubac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-j-n-o" | |
-2 letters: beacon. | |
-3 letters: bacon, banco, banjo, beano, cajon, canoe, ocean. | |
-4 letters: acne, aeon, anoa, bane, bean, bone, cane, cone, ebon, jane, jean, jeon, nabe, once. | |
-5 letters: aba, abo, ace, ana, ane, baa, ban, ben, boa, cab, can, cob, con, eon, jab, job, joe, nab, nae, neb, nob, obe, oca, one. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 61 63 6F 62 65 61 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01100011 01101111 01100010 01100101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a c o b e a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0063 006F 0062 0065 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4467698168716780 |
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